2. Creation vs. The Theory of Evolution Can We Believe the Bible? Overview

3. Scope, Clarifications, and Definitions THEORY of evolution Truth about Adaptation Issues of Semantics Scientific Method: Use and Abuse –Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Conclusion (or further Experimentation)

4. Quick view of Theory of Evolution Age of Earth ??? Extensible Timeline Symbiosis of Geology and Paleontology Genetic Mutations Natural Selection Common Ancestry

5. Quick View of Biblical Creationism Genesis Account –6 Literal days of Creation –Genesis Flood –Tower of Babel References in Scripture –Psalms and Isaiah in abundance –Romans 5:12-14, I Corinthians 15:20-22 (Adam) –Romans 8:19-22 (Creation waits for Revelation)

6. 2 Peter 3:5 - 7 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

7. Revelation 4:11 “ You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”

8. Compromise Viewpoints

9. Biblically Important? The Creator is the Redeemer –John 1:1-18 The Redeemer is the Creator –Colossians 1:14-18 Redeemer saves Real World, not Ideal World –Romans 5 (Adam and Christ) Non-Creator God cannot ‘create’ New Man Allegorical Adam means mythological salvation – God Forbid! God is in charge of this world, He can help me

10. Creation vs. The Theory of Evolution Can We Believe the Bible? Theory of Evolution

11. Stage 1: Hydrogen Rush Stage 2: Rapid Expansion (‘Big Bang’) Stage 3: Cooling and Equilibrium Stage 4: Primordial Ooze meets Energy Stage 5: Single-cell Life Stage 6: Genetic culling and Selection

12. Problems for Theory of Evolution Fraudulent Examples –Piltdown Man / Neanderthals –Peppered Moths –‘Lucy’ –Haekel’s Egg drawings Lack of Transitional Forms Rate of Change Double-edged Sword Fossils

15. Information Information Technology? Creation Communication Interpretation Predicated Action

16. Major Scientific ‘Pink Elephants’ Bohr’s Atomic Model Physics Assumptions (Horse) Rate of Change Extrapolation / Interpolation ‘From here’ assumptions Piecemeal analysis Urge for ‘new’ Discoveries

17. Creation vs. The Theory of Evolution Can We Believe the Bible? Biblical Creationism

18. Biblical (Young-Earth) Creationism Ex Nihilo Six Literal 24-hour days of Creation (G1) Man / Woman Fall of Man and the Cursed Earth Genesis World-wide Flood (G6) Subsequent Catastrophism Tower of Babel (G11) Ages of Man, Creatures

19. Questions about Creation How old is the Earth? Are you sure? What happened to the Dinosaurs? What are the dragons and unicorns in the Bible? Behemoth? Leviathan? Did Methuselah really have 969 birthdays? What about the Grand Canyon? How did the animals et al. spread out?

20. Intelligent Design - Bombardier

21. Intelligent Design – Woodpecker

22. Intelligent Design - Platypus

23. Intelligent Design - Giraffe

24. Intelligent Design - Beaver

25. Intelligent Design - Chicken Egg

26. Intelligent Design - Chuckwalla

27. Intelligent Design - Gecko

28. Intelligent Design - Bears

29. Intelligent Design - Dragonfly

30. Intelligent Design - Elephant

31. Intelligent Design - Firefly

32. Intelligent Design - Glowworms

33. Intelligent Design - Hippopotamus

34. Intelligent Design – Golden Plover

35. Intelligent Design - Whales

36. Intelligent Design The Fingerprints of God Irreducible Complexity Function Design Beauty and Diversity Bear witness of God